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...happens, a classic treatise on these sorts of upsides and downsides of capitalism was written by the same economist who invented the misery index--Arthur Okun, Chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1975 he published a book called Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. Its point was that there is natural tension between the two halves of its title. Redistributive taxation, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and the like may enhance equality, but they impede overall efficiency and growth. Ideology is partly a question of which side of the tradeoff you favor...
...cost of powerful and convenient new features is security. For most (including myself), the utility of the World Wide Web and Java is worth the tradeoff in security...
...think it's a wonderful institution," Oettinger says. "It creates a bit of chaos, but it's a wonderful tradeoff for free marketplace so students can see what they're getting before buying into...
...analogy goes no further than the nearest cash register, by caving in to a few customers who have complained that cigarettes are not easily found in this part of Cambridge. One wonders how Starbuck's (next door) would have responded to such a request. One also wonders how the tradeoff for the new Broadway Market can actually be worth it. To be making a few extra dollars a day in exchange for a contradiction of their original image, to be sending a come and get 'em' message to the high school across the street, to be violating all common-sensical...
...reform involves much more than a single tradeoff. The council's suggested calendar would detract from the current schedule in several ways...